News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Tovias Dunton, has been arraigned on federal charges of conspiring to possess heroin with the intent to distribute, distribution of heroin, and using a minor to distribute and attempt to distribute heroin. The defendant was indicted as part of the Drug Market Initiative (DMI), which is an on-going commitment to eradicate the heroin market in the English Avenue neighborhood.
By State Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following changes to this week’s Committee events...
By State Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today applauded committee passage of the Global Gateways Trade Capacity Act (S.2201), their bipartisan legislation to improve the effectiveness of U.S. assistance for expanded trade in developing countries.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA, June 23-Honey bees may reduce stress and become a new business venture for those who have served in the U.S. military. That premise guides a unique partnership between the Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics and Physiology Laboratory and the Louisiana Armed Forces Foundation (LaAFF).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A two-count federal indictment has been returned charging two Houston residents and one Mexican National in a cocaine conspiracy, announced Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Houston Division U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Kody Ray Gibbs, 29, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday to possession of sexually explicit images of minors, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Gibbs was indicted by a federal grand jury in Coeur d'Alene on April 19, 2016.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Senator Al Franken (D-MN), member of Senate HELP and Judiciary Committees, applauded...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Involuntary Manslaughter and Child Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that BRIAN GRACO, age 35, of Slidell, pled guilty today to receiving images and videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jay Barton, 48, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Buffalo Springs, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 97 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his voluntary manslaughter conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A doctor with offices in Toms River, New Jersey, today admitted accepting thousands of dollars in exchange for patient referrals to two lab companies that performed blood and DNA testing, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, introduced S. 3085, the Emergency Wildfire and Forest Management Act of 2016. The pairs a responsible solution to “fire-borrowing" with much needed reforms to improve...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after the release of the Zika conference report. Last month, Carper urged his colleagues to support efforts by the Obama Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that five persons who previously pleaded guilty in related cases to filing false claims for federal tax refunds were sentenced this week, in federal court in Scranton, by United States District Judge Robert Mariani.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Samuel Antonio Flores-Murillo, 38, a Mexican national, pled guilty yesterday afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to assaulting a federal officer. The guilty plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Chief Patrol Agent Jeffrey D. Self of the U.S. Border Patrol El Paso Sector, and Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade of the Albuquerque Division of the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Stefon D. Clark, Ayanna Johnson, and Quantaves Curry, have been sentenced to three years, five months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud in connection with their scheme to deposit fraudulent checks at USAA, the Navy Federal Credit Union, and BB&T.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Filimon Mendez-Perez," a/k/a “Alfredo Lopez-Perez," 34, of Lancaster, PA, was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about Feb. 25, 2016, Mendez-Perez, an alien, and native and citizen of Mexico, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about December 7, 2009, June 2, 2010, and July 30, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Defendants Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Cornell Harvey Admitted Robbing and Shooting Two Individuals Selling Marijuana in UDH Territory, Killing One of Them.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: BRIGHTON, Colo. - The U.S. Departments of Interior and Agriculture today announced more than $47 million in investments to help water districts and producers on private working lands better conserve water resources. The funds include $15 million in USDA funds and $32.6 million from the Bureau of Reclamation for local projects to improve water and energy efficiency and provide a strengthened federal response to ongoing and potential drought across 13 states in the West.
